(CNN)– U.S. minorities now represent more than half of America's population under the age of 1, the Census Bureau said, a historic demographic milestone with profound political, economic and social implications.

The bureau - defining a minority as anyone who is not "single race white" and "not Hispanic" - released estimates on Thursday showing that 50.4% of children younger than 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011, up from 49.5% from the 2010 Census taken in April 2010.

"2011 is the first time the population of infants under age 1 is majority minority," said Robert Bernstein, a Census Bureau spokesman.

The latest statistics - which also count the national population younger than 5 as 49.7% minority in 2011, an increase from 49% in 2010 - portend a future of a more racially diverse America, with new and growing populations playing more important roles politically and economically in years to come, analysts say.

Like other analysts, Kenneth M. Johnson, senior demographer at the Carsey Institute and professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, isn't surprised at the trend.

"We've known it was going to come, but the question was what year the "crossover point" would happen, he said.

"Little children are in the vanguard of all this change coming to America." he said.

Johnson sees the trend as an opportunity for more Americans to embrace diversity. More children are going to be exposed to a more diverse group of classmates, and that will affect attitudes and outlook.

The changes are going to be felt first in hospitals, as well as schools, where an increasingly diverse child population has to be absorbed. Hospitals would need interpreters and translators, for example, Johnson said. English as a second language would be an educational priority.

While many regions such as Atlanta have a diverse population, other regions lack racial and ethnic variety and will have to deal with a new kind of population, he said. In declining rural counties, he said, an influx of groups like Hispanics would serve to renew communities and changes would ensue.

"For a country that's aging, we need young workers, and the growth of the minority population will contribute to the size of the young adult workforce," he said. "This is breathing new life into the United States."

Jeff Passell, senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center, called the Census numbers "a cumulative effect of 35 to 40 years of immigration" bringing large numbers of Latinos, Asians and other immigrants into the United States.

He said the Hispanic population in particular is very young, much more concentrated in child-bearing years, and has a higher fertility rate than the white, non-Hispanic population. Lately, he says, there are a lot more births among native Hispanics in the United States than new Hispanic immigrants, a "cumulative effect" of immigration.

If the trend continues, Passell says several decades from now, possibly in the late 2030s or early 2040s, the U.S. population will become less than 50% non-Hispanic white.

"This is a trend that we can reasonably expect to continue. The factors that determine this have been set into motion, and in demography things tend to change gradually," he said.

There were 114 million minorities in 2011, or 36.6% of the U.S. population, a bump of half a percentage point from 2010. The latest figures count Hispanics as the most populous and fastest growing minority group.

They numbered 52 million in 2011, and their population grew by 3.1% since 2010. The U.S. Hispanic population grew from 16.3% in 2010 to 16.7% in 2011.

"California had the largest Hispanic population of any state on July 1, 2011 (14.4 million), as well as the largest numeric increase within the Hispanic population since April 1, 2010, (346,000)," the Census said.

"New Mexico had the highest percentage of Hispanics at 46.7%. Los Angeles had the largest Hispanic population of any county (4.8 million) in 2011 and the largest numeric increase since 2010 (73,000). Starr County - on the Mexican border in Texas - had the highest share of Hispanics (95.6 percent)."

Asians numbered 18.2 million nationally in 2011, making them the second fastest-growing minority group - up by 3% since 2010. Figures show that California had the largest Asian population of any state at 5.8 million and the largest increase since 2010 at 131,000.

"Hawaii is our nation's only majority-Asian state, with people of this group comprising 57.1% of the total population. Los Angeles had the largest Asian population of any county (1.6 million) in 2011, and also the largest numeric increase (16,000) since 2010. At 61.2%, Honolulu had the highest percentage of Asians in the nation," the Census said.

African-Americans are the second largest minority group in the United States at 43.9 million in 2011, an increase of 1.6% from 2010. New York has the largest black population of any state with 3.7 million and Texas has the largest increase from 2010 of 84,000. Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago, has the largest black population of any county at 1.3 million. Fulton County, Georgia, which includes Atlanta, has the largest increase since 2010 at 13,000.

The District of Columbia has the highest percentage of blacks at 52.2%. Mississippi has the second-largest at 38%.

America's native population - labeled "American Indian and Alaska Native population" by the Census - was about 6.3 million in 2011, up 2.1% from 2010. California had the largest such population at 1,050,000 and the largest increase at 23,000. Alaska had the highest share at 19%. Los Angeles had the largest such population of any county, with 231,000, and the largest increase, 9,000 since 2010.

The population classified as "Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander" was 1.4 million in 2011, up 2.9% since 2010. Hawaii had the largest such population of any state at 359,000 and the highest percentage at 26.1. California had the largest increase since 2010 at 9,000. Honolulu has the largest population of any county at 235,000. Los Angeles County had the largest increase since 2011 at 2,700.

Of single race non-Hispanic whites, California had the largest population at 15 million. Texas had the largest increase since 2010 at 80,000. Maine had the highest percentage of the non-Hispanic white alone population, 94.3 percent.

Four states and the District of Columbia have predominantly minority populations, Hawaii, at 77%, the District of Columbia at 64.7%, California, at 60.3%, New Mexico, at 59.8%, and Texas, at 55.2%. Minorities comprised the majority population in 11% of the nation's 3,143 counties.

Michael White, professor of sociology at Brown University, said the rise of minorities fits into a longer-term evolution of the U.S. population, a mosaic that has been adapting to ethnic change since the first Census was recorded in 1790. There have been many groups represented over time, from enslaved and indigenous peoples, those of European stock, and now to a population reflecting the wider world - truly a "melting pot," he said.

White says it's hard to say how the changes will affect politics and that one can't assume that ethnic patterns will determine voting patterns. Local economic issues, for example, will evolve differently in different states and cities, and there are economic benefits of having a younger population, he said.

"The political dimensions will play out differently," he said. And by the time the babies are old enough to cast ballots, "the United States will be a different place when they are walking into a voting booth."

William Frey, Brookings Institution demographer, sees political challenges for new immigrants and an economy benefiting from their presence. Many Hispanics and Asians are too young to vote or can't cast ballots because they haven't become citizens.

"It's going to take perhaps awhile before the younger people get more engaged in politics. They do have an impact in some places, like swing states, such as Nevada, Colorado and Florida. They can make a difference," he said.

He, too, says that newcomers to the United States bring an energy that invigorates the economic system and an older society.

"I think we're going to just see that the younger part of the population will have a different vibe," he said. "They are sort of needed to help our youthful image and to add to that vitality. They will bring a dimension and element we sorely need."

It would be more accurate to say "White babies are no longer in the majority." There are still more white babies than any other race, just not all other races combined. Therefore, they have a plurality but not a majority.

This does not mean anything good for anyone. Most hispanic, mexican, asians, or races that pass for white have adopted the ways of many prejudice white people. Mexicans and Asians can be just as racist as whites. They have no love for even their darker skinned Mexicans or Asians.

Yeh cause only white people are racist. I never experienced or witnessed racism growing up till joining the military, and realizing that nearly all of the young black men I met just plain hated all white people.

Wow, I'm sorry that your experience has been that way. My experience has been that the military is a minature melting pot. I would be foolish to say I've never experienced racism or seen while I've served, but a big majority of the servicemembers I've worked with are honorable and respectable people.

the problem with that is the American government has defined a "White" race as Europeans, Arabs, Jews, and Northern Africans. (and they seem to keep expanding it when they get threatened by "coloured people" poulation increases)

When white women continue to choose career over family (both here in US and in Europe), it will lead to us whites becoming extinct – within a few generations. Why should we become extinct? Are womens rights to blame? Are white womens' greed for money and power undermining the survival of our race?

with this report
white babies have escalated on the demand list
for adoption
$200 for a white baby
$10 bucks or $3 for $15 for a black one
$2 bucks for a hispanic
supply and demand has reared it's ugly head once again!

Who cares whether white folks or black folks or hispanic folks are in the majority in the future? Skin color has nothing to do with anything. If differences in the demographics exist, it is due to situations of poverty and lack of education because of the failings of society, not the individual.

I have no problem whatsoever with other races, but do have extreme affection for my own race, and I feel something should be done to help it flourish. I'm a young woman of childbearing age, who has put off children to advance my education (college, grad school, doctorate) and career, which I worked very hard for. Many, if not most, smart, educated women have done the same. I feel the government should subsidize the freezing of the eggs of women like me. We desperately need more naturally intelligent women producing children.

This is where fifty years of leftist policies and cultural marxism has gotten us. Once the majority, whites, have bent over backwards to be nice and accomodate others not like them and now they are in the minority and have lost their leading cultural and demographic position and role. See, nice people do finish last. Whites have been naive and stupid, guilted and deceived into giving up their place in theiir own country. Thank you Ted Kennedy for your "anchor babies" .

You are mistaken. This is hardly a solely "anchor-baby" issue. Take me, for instance. I'm as white as can be – Irish/Sweden with a little Native American thrown in for good measure. What did I do? I hooked up with a Polynesian/Asian mix. Our baby, now 18, is not considered white. I wouldn't trade him for the world. Liberal policies, indeed!!!

"No problem in the modern United States can't be traced back to a too-liberal immigration policy of the Native American tribal nations." In other words . . . don't whine. European settlers stole the land from the people who were -already here-. Just like the Spanish did in much of South America and the Brits did in Australia.

White people have nothing to fear, but fear itself... Seriously, I've been trying to teach mexicans and black people that white people are evil haters for years, but most think I'm over reacting. Whites have a long history of hate that predates them coming to this country... Whites are always trying to erase, twist, and outright change history to fit their agenda of white supremacy.

You do realize most white people don't think like you, the so-called "libtards". It is only Nazis like you man. And you are right, that ideology is dying. You guys kind of died already at the end of WWII.

let it fall into ruins, like the hunger games, right? where you upset when your favorite character turned out black, or better yet Jewish and Black? "I never envisioned him as Lenny Kravitz!" -Bribarian

Do you realize that those 1% that rule the world think nothing of you and yours. It is not about race with them, It is about money and them thinking they are safe on their 1 billion dollar space ship seat. The conspiracy is the majority of the works thinks it is a conspiracy. Love, health and happiness to all!

with all this hatred towards white and utter jealousy!
i am so proud of being pure white! everyone wants to be just like us!
sad but oh so true!
so the way to get even is to overpopulate and hope for the best

The Republicans do not support birth control, planned parenthood (for family planning) or abortion, leaving the poor and minorities NO choice but to have the babies. No one understands that these restrictive policies only effect the poor and minorities. People with money will AWAYS have access to birth control and abortions – if illegal they will fly wherever it's legal to have it.

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The definition of "White" keeps changing.
When I was a kid, 50 years ago, Italians and Spanish were NOT whites. Neither were Turks or Arabs.
Most of all, however, the use of the term "coloured people" and "minorities" is offensive in a society that promises justice and equality for all. This is not the United States of America any more.

Anchor Babies is a racist, Republican lie. There is no such thing as Anchor Babies, if a person is found to qualify to be deported it doesn't matter how many American born children they have, they will be deported.

The hispanic population is definitely the main reason behind the jump in births. When I gave birth to son about 5 years ago, as I took my stroll through the hall to the nursery, I think every single room other than mine was a hispanic woman. I know because they either joined me on the walk to the nursery or I could hear the conversation in the room or the tv as I passed the room. It didn't bother me at all it was just something I noticed. Another increase is in the mixed babies. There has been a spike in interracial relationships thus creating mixed/interracial babies. Some people opt to check "other" than check white or black or hispanic because the baby is a good mixture of both parents. I'm in an interracial relationship and if I have a kid from him, I'd probably check "other" as well unless you can check two boxes.

A lot of people are having a lot of children that they can't afford and that do not have fathers. They also get subsidised housing, schooling, food, etc. Not sustainable. Look around. Many have children for the benefits.

I wouldn't say they have the kids for the benefits but they're definitely being irresponsibe. I got my first job right out of high school because I had a kid in the 12th grade. I have been employed ever since. I've moved up the ladder and make a decent but not high salary. I do not qualify for food stamps, subsidized housing or anything else. It bugs the heck out of me because although I work, I like a lot of other working people have a ton of deductions being taken from my check and I bring home much less than my gross pay. But the scales are based on gross pay and not the final pay after the deductions. I know of quite a few mothers who haven't worked a day in their life, have 4, 5 and 6 kids and get it all plus get to sleep all day while the working class work.

It is obvious that you have never been poor enough to get any welfare benefits. If you ever had you would then realize that no one is really stupid enough to do that, and we have some really stupid people in America.

Please quit writing about things you know nothing about so that you don’t qualify for that label yourself.

Matter of opinion j. Matter of opinion. A large majority of hispanic women are gorgeous. Please note that I'm not hispanic. I'm just a woman who isn't jealous of anyone and appreciates and loves the way I look. There are ugly women in all races and beautiful women in all races so cut that out.

It has nothing to do with what God likes or doesn't like. It has to do with the fact that more minorities are recieving welfare and other public assistance and pop out a dozen babies that they can't afford because they're not the ones paying the bills, and the ones they do pay they have 20 people living with them to pitch in. Whereas the responsible people that spend more time working for their money than they do on their backs know that if they can't afford any more children they shouldn't have them.

Let me guess, you're the type person who would ask an Asian where they are from, hear something like Cleveland, then ask them where they're really from, no? But if they asked you where you're really from, you'd get upset and say, "America of course!"

"your" own country. It's these implicit biases that the country needs to get past.

bribarian, are you assuming I'm white like one of those hunger game characters that ended up betraying you? I am white, but who's the real dodo here? The People who "won" Darwin's monkey trial are looked at as the stereotypical dodo. Who has more in common with them, you, or me? Remember, those who talk about white power are usually those whites with none of it.

So, when will white people start getting special privileges when it comes to obtaining government jobs and government contracts. And, when will we get the Caucasian College Fund and our own history month and our own special Miss America Pageant?

Whites already get those things. Oh...and if you want things like a Caucasian College Fund...then start one! You want a Caucasian History Month? Then start one. You want a Caucasian Miss America pageant...then start one! I know...that means you'd have to get off *your* butt to make them happen. But blacks got off *their* butts and started this other stuff...so why can't you? I mean, you think you're better than they are...right?

Are you crazy? A flight attendant can't ask a black man not to take up so much compartment space with a HUGE bag without every media outlet being contacted that there was racism. African Americans CONSTANTLY pull the race card when the wind blows the wrong direction. Anyone who even tried to start a white only anything would have to live in hiding for years. You want equality? Don't make a company hire a certain amount of blacks, don't make a college turn away a higher qualified student because they have to reserve their African american slots, don't have your own pagents but still enter in the other ones. Make everyone work for what they get and stop using that go to "it's because I'm black" comment that makes more people resentful than anything else. Because in this day and age, no it's not because you're black, it's because you didn't earn or deserve whatever it was.

First you have to go through a payback phase. A few hundred years of slavery and colonization. No school for your kids. The scraps of the economy. After that, you are welcome to all that you mentioned.

Payback for what? I don't owe you a D a m n thing and nobody else does eiather. America was not the only country that had slaves and they were not even the ones that started it. Black men from Africa started it by selling the prisoners to other countries as slaves and it went out of hand from there. I don't in any way shape or form think it was right but regardless, no white person living is responsible for what happened.

I agree. I'm not responsible for anything that happened 100 or even 50 years ago. Yet I'm stuck paying for special programs and I don't get special advantages in hiring. I was a supervisor several years ago. Most of the 60 employees were black. I had to be very careful. When one of my white employees messed up I took action according to the guidelines I had been given. No problem. When one of my black employees messed up and I did the same thing, you would have thought slavery was a recent thing. Every smegging time I had to answer an EEOC complaint. I remember writing one response that said, "The color of Mr. 'x" skin did not cause him to be late to work 15 times in the past 20 days."
I hate all the 'special exceptions.' Try to have WET (White entertainment television) or a White caucus in the House and Senate and see what a uproar their is!

only in america can bourgeois white people complain that the main racial problem we face is reverse racism and affirmative action, when people of color and woman missed out on the greatest affirmative action program in history, having been locked out of their GI bill and redlined after world war II.

The biggest affirmative action program in U.S. history was the 1944 servicemen's readjustment act, or the G.I. Bill, that was denied to people of color and women despite their service. This, coupled with being redlined is the real reason minorities are poorer than whites, whites who assumed they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps.

To the people posting hateful comments: When you're old and gray and cannot care for yourself, I hope your fellow racist friends and family help care for you. It very sad to see what happens to old hateful, racist people in a care home... Most care homes will put you out if you become an issue and your family will look the other way so long as they don't have to care for you... Most places that care for the elderly are full of "so-called" minority staff.

Except they drive slow in the fast lane and stand still in the middle of the grocery isles in Times! I lived there for 5 years. I move to fast and furious for the ohana culture. Love the people though.

If you force white people to marry only white people . You will kill their happiness. They will go crazy and attack kids and wife too. Kids will turn spoil brats. Do something extremely dangerous and killing themselves.

Some whites prefer to marry outside race. They want to be free as bird.

If you think that gays and lesbians are the cause of this, then you must believe there are many many more than the right wing is usually willing to admit. I think you better confirm what your xtan fundies say about these things before you open your big dumb mouth and show that you are clearly not with the right wing program.

Lot of people dont want me to use the term genocide, but why wouldn't I? Here it is on the front page, it is happening. You can't hide from it any longer, you are being systematically murdered as a race. If this happened to Jews, blacks, hispanics there'd be an uproar and scream, but whites just sit down, it's ok. You going out the door is just fine....

How is that even sensible? People are marrying outside their race and have been for a long time, not because they have a gun to their heads either! People CHOOSE to marry and have children by people whom they love. There are a lot of biracial people as a result. It is not self-genocide or anything of the kind!! Don't be ridiculous.

This country is going to hell because there are fewer white babies than other races being born? This country is failing in education and economics because there are fewer babies being born? I think your bias and racism are more the cause.

Abortions will happen whether you like planned parenthood or not. They will continue whether planned parenthood exists or not. They will continue whether the procedure is legal are not, and there is not a damned thing you can do about it.

Nobody told white women to get knocked up then have abortions. Nobody told white women to care more about maintaining a weight of about 105 pounds than having babies. They're too concerned about getting "fat". It's your own fault.

You guys watch too much football, basketball, hockey, baseball, NASCAR and video games!!! Then there's the golfing on the weekends with the guys, man-caves and oggling girls with big breasts at the beach. Hey, do you ever take any responsibility for say, snuggley-wuggley-time with the little woman you're married to?? Nah, you're just into the 'spector sports'. Jokes on you.

If Whites are ever deemed "smarter" it is only because blacks have been held back in education and opportunity through our shameful history of discrimination. Don't be proud that you achieved more on the backs of your counterparts who have been held back by our own country. If you tied my two legs together making you a better runner than me how proud would you be of running better? Would you gloat? Shame on you!

I'm white and I'm gay – discrimination against anyone or any group must end now!!!! Making up excuses for why it's okay to discriminate against someone like me is not okay. I hurt like everyone else. I was born gay like you were born black or white. Stop hurting me and the rest of us, we wake up every morning and go to work and try to keep a smile on our faces. Please stop aiming hurts at us and making each of our days harder and sadder.

There are several possible explanations and reasons for this, among them:

1- white women do abort.
2- white people are or have become sterile.
3- white people prefer to have pets specially dogs rather than children.
4- white people call their pets, specially dogs; baby.
5- white people prefer luxury cars (Ferraris, Lamborginis) over children.
6- white people don't love children.
7- white people don't like children.
8- because of all of the above, God's judgemente is that white people do not deserve children.
9- white people are killing their children
10- after killing their children, white people are eating their children due to eating disorders.
11- white people are feeding their children to their dogs.

....but you're the cause of it. You can't have interacial children without whites being a contributing factor. When you "I'm White" idiots become human beings then there is no need for statistics like this.

White vs "The rest". The problem here is "The rest" is made of mutliple ethnic groups. It's very amusing to put them all in the "other ingredients pot". As a white I must admit I fear the day they will all league against us and use my taxes to feed their offsprings and take over the world! This article reeks of xenophobia...

...Believe me, because of your colonialist history whites will not be missed in a lot of places on earth and your children no longer identify with racial labels.....and that goes for blacks, hispanics and most americanized asians. Think Star Trek if you can see that far ahead.

Minority? There is absolutely nothing minor about non-white heritage or placement in this world. STOP referring to yourselves as such. Embrace and love one another, and reflect on how being non-white has impacted daily life, and overall existence. Allow your struggles to teach that being conquered by divisive racism is more reason to unite and banish rifts between yourselves. No one will respect you until you learn to love, protect, and respect yourselves. Be proud, thrive, LIVE!!

And ... who cares? No really, who cares? OK, older generations may care as they are more racially biased. And of course there are always going to be new kids trained in the ways of hate. But as a general rule, the issue of race matters less and less for the younger genrations. So while this is an interesting item, it just doesn't matter.

What does matter is all the other ongoing issues of life such as government deficit spending, social programs running out of funds, lack of decent jobs, oil and energy issues, and on and on and on. Does anyone really have any time to care about the color of someone's skin anymore? Aren't we all to busy to care (except for those dedicated to hate of course)? Sigh....

Jews and Liberals have engineered quite a catastrophe here in America. And let's not pretend they haven't pushed for this genocide for the past 50 years. Maybe when l1btards are steering down the barrel of a gangmember's loaded gun it will finally dawn on them what really happened. Maybe not tho.

What a cowardly thing to say. How do you explain all those light skinned children running around on the plantation. Hell, they were pregnant getting off the baot. Stop blaming the minorities for thier own enslavement and the resulting "thinning of the "white race" (no such thing)! you brought us here. you married and otherwise procreated with ALL of your enslaved populations WORLDWIDE and then you expect us to just forget about it, move along, I'm tired of being PC and all your other denials. Get used to it! Become a human and join the true population of Earth.

I assume all the racists and ignorant masses' heads exploded upon hearing this news? I thought so. Well, too dang bad. There's nothing you can do about it nor should anyone want to stop it. It's inevitable and I welcome it. In a few hundred years we'll all be off-coffee colored with asian features, so get used to it. In fact embrace it. Only then will most ignorant racists be history. Of course the haters will find something else to hate about people they don't know.

Who in their right mind would want to bring children into this f'd up world. We're already taxed into slavery. Just keep pumping out those offspring, I 'll be collecting social security and medicare soon.

The whites will flush out all the garbage just like we did before when we wanted to take over america from the Native Americans only this time it will be the browns . We still need janitors , garbage men and landscapers though . Hope i still catch them outside home depot .

Hahaha!!! People like you are so short-sited and ignorant. You're incapable of seeing anything but what is put directly in front of you. Ok...fine. I'll do that now: Vanilla Gorilla, this change is inevitable and you have no power to change it. There are things in this world that are bigger than you and your racism. Race as we know it will cease to exist and, thankfully, so will you.

I agree that our country is the worst for this and there is nothing we can do about it. We created and made this country great- little did we know we would then be handing it over to those who couldn't make their own country the same way.

Worse at what? Being a multi-cultural melting pot? Yea that is a horrible thing. Hate to break this to you but our country was founded on the idea of being a melting pot and being diverse. Makes us stronger. Don't be so afraid, it will be just fine I promise you.

Yes it started with the concept of a melting pot, then turned into the herding of the existing populace onto reservations and then became this great country importing slaves!...I love it here! This is how you run a country!

So if you are white it is OK? Hate to break this to you but not every black person here is a decedent of slaves, not even the majority. I think you need to study more then just your H.S. history. Multiculturalism is working right under nose in this country. Again no one said it was going to be a nirvana, just a place you can come and have opportunity. Only bigoted people try to hold it back. This isn't going to change in this country. The people here aren't going anywhere, get used to it or find somewhere else to go.

All Jews can do is attack the messengers by calling us silly little names and applying false labels/motives, while engaging in censorship. You simply cannot debate/rebut the facts, so this is all you are left with. Very predictable and quite telling.

I'm upset CNN has allowed for commentary on this article knowing that it creates nothing more than a platform for individuals to incite negativity and racially charged war of words. Half the people making statements don't even believe the statements they're putting out there, but simply wish to inflame others for the fun of it. This is disgusting and there's really nothing to debate. You didn't wake up yesterday and all of a sudden the country changed before your eyes. The nation is and has always been diverse, but not even that should matter if we truly believe everyone is equal as we say we do.

this would be due to not having free healthcare from the states. When your medical and food are not provided for you (as those who work do not get it for free) you are a bit more cautious of having kids. There are some women out there who need to learn that tax payers money is not yours and to keep your legs TOGETHER!

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